Jeanne LaFrance, Michael Ervolini

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Dec. 10, 2017

Jeanne Catherine LaFrance and Michael Albert Ervolini are to be married Dec. 10 at the Lenox Hotel in Boston. Richard W. Lewis, a friend of the couple, received authorization from the secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to solemnize the marriage.

Ms. LaFrance, 62, is the senior director, overseeing sales, client relationships and operations, in the Medford, Mass., franchise of CMIT Solutions, a technology company. She is also on the membership committee and the corporate-relations committee at the Boston Club, a leadership organization for women. She graduated from Pace University.

She is a daughter of the late Joan Martin Winant and the late Robert T. Winant, who lived together in Douglaston, Queens. The bride’s father retired as a police officer in the 10th precinct, in Manhattan, for the New York Police Department. Her mother was an administrator in the language department at Queensboro Community College in Bayside, Queens.

Mr. Ervolini, 62, is a founder and the chief executive of Cabot Research, a financial technology company in Boston. He is also the author of “Managing Equity Portfolios” (M.I.T. Press, 2014), and is a trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear of Boston. He graduated from Rutgers and received a master’s degree in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is a son of the late Margaret Ervolini and the late Joseph A. Ervolini, who lived together in Haddon Heights, N.J. The groom’s father was a quality assurance specialist in the aerospace and defense division, in Camden, N.J., of the RCA Corporation.

The couple were introduced through mutual friends in 2015, and their first date was at a trivia night in a Cambridge, Mass., hotel. A week later, while they were waiting for friends to join them for a second night of trivia, a speeding motorcyclist left the roadway. Ms. LaFrance pushed Mr. Ervolini out of its path. “I literally saved his life,” she said. “It missed us by like an inch. It was quite dramatic.”

After he tumbled to the ground, Ms. LaFrance remembers Mr. Ervolini citing a purported Chinese proverb that says when you save someone’s life, you’re responsible for them for the rest of your own life. “Which at the time, I didn’t think was very funny,” she said. “And now here we are, getting married!”

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